Smiling Under Lanterns - Chapter 487 - 175 Old Friend_3

In her past life, Ashley Shaw was a hopeless romantic who married Warren Prescott in place of his first love, devotedly cooking and caring for him, only to end up with a tragic ending of death for both her and her unborn child.Reborn back to her high school days, she becomes disillusioned with Warren Prescott, and her life now centers on two principles.1. Focus on her studies.2. Stay away from Warren Prescott.However, the Warren Prescott who once treated her as if she were invisible now shamelessly pins her against the billiard table.She runs, he chases; it's a game she can't escape.Ashley Shaw gives up her medical studies at Aethelgard University, and he comes to her school every week to block her.“Ashley Shaw, you can't escape.”Ashley is indifferent: “Young Master Prescott, please have some self-respect, I'm not interested in you.”The man is emotionally broken and, gripping her slender waist, says in a hoarse voice: “Whether you're interested or not isn't up to you to say, it's up to your body to decide.”

Li Mo, who has studied antiques and miscellaneous studies since childhood, had a mutated eye in an accident.

Unsophisticated and generous bronzes, exquisite porcelain, calligraphy and paintings with horizontal brush and ink, and thrilling gambling stones came one after another. Since then, Li Mo’s life has undergone subversive changes.

I have divine pupils, and there is no treasure in the world.

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“Modret, you are the only one that can save the gods from their crisis!”Modret, a legendary gamer known for beating impossibly difficult titles, finally clears Celestial Descent after six relentless months.But just as the victory screen flashes… the world around him collapses.He awakens in an unfamiliar realm — not the game world, but a terrifyingly real universe unlike anything he’s ever seen.A world so brutal, so unfathomably difficult, it makes Celestial Descent feel like a tutorial.Blessed—or cursed—with seven divine draws, Modret receives ancient relics, a mythical bloodline, and a forbidden system: the Cosmic Shadow System.His mission is absolute:Save the gods from extinction.But the world doesn't want to be saved.The gods aren’t what they seem.And Modret’s very existence may be the spark that dooms them all.Because in a world this cruel…Maybe the true calamity isn’t coming—Maybe it just arrived.Power Tags & Tropes:Transmigration • System • OP MC • Cosmic Evolution • Harem • Succubus • Elf • Angel • Vampire • Fox Girls • Dragon Girls • Monster Girls • Slaves • Princesses • Yandere • Primordial War • Divine Realms • Righteous Characters • No Incest • No Rape • No Yuri • No NTR • Death • Demon Lords • Mana

A high school student that has lived as a mob-character ―― Mimori Touka